Join TLC apiarist, Mike Langer, for an inside look at the busy, buzzy world of honeybees. Get a close-up look at a hive during routine inspection while gaining practical beekeeping knowledge. Don't miss this great opportunity for non-beekeepers, prospective beekeepers and new beekeepers interested in seeing another apiary. Protective veils will be available. If you have your own gear, please bring it along!
Enjoy this early morning opportunity to photograph the gardens of Mt. Cuba Center during the “magic hours” when light quality is less intense, shadows are soft, and colors appear richer. Photographers of all experience levels receive professional guidance on the technical and aesthetic elements of photography from Chris Starr, a Mt. Cuba Center employee and highly accomplished photographer. Be creative, find inspiration, and leave with a better appreciation of the natural world. Bring your camera, lenses, tripod, and camera manual.
Rain date for this event is Saturday, May 5, 2018.
Girl Scout Junior
Not just a pretty face! With the Winterthur Garden as a laboratory, earn the Flowers badge while discovering how flowers function and recording your experience in a garden journal. Make a dried flower sachet and learn how to create a flower arrangement. $12 per girl.
Get a closer look at trades of the eighteenth century in Newlin’s “History at Work” series. Members of Newlin Grist Mill’s staff, volunteers, and outside artisans will demonstrate their crafts and talk with visitors about how different trades and skills were integral to life in colonial Pennsylvania and to the operation of Newlin Grist Mill. These demonstrations take place on the last Saturday of the month between 10:00am and 3:00pm.
April 28th: Beer Brewing
May 26: Cooperage
June 30: Spinning & Weaving
July 28: Tinsmithing
August 25: Paper Marbling & Bookbinding
September 29: Joinery
October 27: Food Preservation
“History at Work” is free and open to the public of all ages.
Chester County’s Department of Drug & Alcohol Services is spreading community awareness for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day set for this Saturday, April 28th. Organized nationwide by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), National Prescription Drug Take Back Day provides temporary local sites for safe, convenient and responsible means of disposing of prescription drugs, while educating the public about the potential for abuse of medications.
From 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 28th, temporary prescription drug disposal sites will be located throughout Chester County, in locations including Avondale, Coatesville, Downingtown, Phoenixville and West Grove. Find a location near you.
Prescription drug abuse is an ever-growing epidemic not only in Chester County, but across the nation. Commonly misused and abused prescription drugs fall into three different categories which include opioids, which are pain relievers and have a similar chemical make up as heroin; sedatives, which are used to treat anxiety and depression; and stimulants, which increase attention, energy, blood pressure, heart rate and breathing rate.
“According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the average age for the first misuse of prescription drugs in the United States is 13 years old,” said Vince Brown, Director of the Chester County Department of Drug and Alcohol Services. “Prescription drugs are often mistaken by adolescents as a ‘safe’ alternative to illegal street drugs, which leads to increased use. There is also a misconception that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs because they are easily accessible in medicine cabinets and homes. Both of these factors lead to increased use.
“In order to decrease first time misuse of prescription drugs, it is imperative to begin with prevention efforts,” added Brown. “As well as education and awareness, prescription drug misuse prevention includes locking up or monitoring prescription medications that are in the home and disposing of any unneeded or expired prescription medications at a medication collection box.”
Prescription painkillers such as Vicodin, Percocet, Oxycodone, Fentanyl, and Morphine are classified as opioids. Opioid prescription drugs essentially have the same chemical make-up as heroin, which means they affect the brain and body the same, and the play a large role in the opioid and heroin use and overdose epidemic that our county, as well as our country, is currently facing.
Chester County remains committed to tackling the opioid and heroin epidemic through intensive prevention, education, treatment and law enforcement measures, coordinated its Overdose Prevention Task Force. To learn more, or to get involved, visit the newly created Overdose Prevention Task Force website, or download the Opioid Epidemic Community Tool Kit.
There are also 23 permanent collection boxes for prescription drugs located in Chester County. Find the list at chesco.org/2673/Medication-Drop-Off
Escape Brandywine is a new, historically immersive escape room experience available every Saturday this spring and summer!
PURCHASE TICKETS
Tickets are $28 per person
Tickets must be purchased in advance online, as space is limited.
Escape Brandywine is an escape room experience, set inside the historic Chads House, c.1725, located along site of the Battle of Brandywine. This escape room program is unlike any other, since it places you directly inside an authentic historical space with a Revolutionary War mission!
Escape Brandywine places participants into roles of spies on the eve of the Battle of Brandywine, and charges them with finding General Howe's battle plans that have been hidden inside the Chads House for safe keeping. Using real Revolutionary War spy techniques, codes and cyphers, players will have 60 minutes to solve puzzles that will allow them to locate the plans and escape the house to deliver the plans to George Washington!
To purchase your tickets, click here. Private escape room experiences are available for corporate outings, team building, private parties and special events! Please email [email protected] or call 610-388-7376 to check availability.
For more information about Chadds Ford Historical Society, please visit our website at http://www.chaddsfordhistory.org.
Join Newlin's staff naturalist for an afternoon of exciting environmental activities. Look for the pop-up naturalist tent in different parts of the park and discover the plants and animals that call Newlin home. While specific activities will vary by theme, you can expect to find interactive demonstrations, live specimens, games and crafts, and fun for the whole family!
In 2018, our naturalist will pop-up from 1pm to 5pm on the following Saturdays:
April 28: Animal Homes
May 26: Wonderful Wildflowers
June 30: Frogs & Toads
July 28: Plant Superheroes
August 25: Stream Life
September 29: Persistent Pollinators
October 27: Mighty Oaks
The Pop-Up Naturalist Program is free and open to the public. All ages are welcome.
Girl Scout Daisy
Take a step on your Flower Garden journey during this fun-filled exploration of the Winterthur garden. $10 per girl.
The art of the Forge exhibitors at Oxford Arts Alliance located at 38 S Third St in Oxford, Pennsylvania.
Jill Beech, Meghan Bergman, Luke DiBerardinis, Curtis Bohn, Lele Galer, Bruce Jarrell, Ellen Durkan, Kerry Rhodes, Judy Petersen, Rob Sigafoos, and Michael Walker will give an artists' talk and demonstration April 28th at 2 pm.
The closing reception is Friday, May 25th from 5-8 pm. Chester County Studio tour is May 19th and May 20th. Visit this page to view more information.
CASA Youth Advocates and our Superhero 5K at Ridley Creek State Park this Sunday 4/29. Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the run starts at 9 a.m.
CASA is a non-profit that recruits and trains volunteers from our community to advocate for abused and neglected children in Delaware and Chester counties. This run/walk is a family and pet friendly event that features costume contests, face painting, and other outdoor fun while supporting a good cause! All children need a hero, but abused and neglected children need a Superhero!
There are lots of posts about the race on our facebook page - www.facebook.com/casayouthadvocates
Color 5K Run & Walk~April 29th~2PM
Hosted on the Brandywine Airport Runway
You are Invited to a Rotary Minglefest!!.....Mingle with Fellow Rotarians from Multiple Clubs and with Family, Friends and Prospective Members.....Monday April 30 5:30 to 8 p.m. at Poz’s Route 1 Pub 68 Baltimore Pike , Glen Mills Pa (On Route 1)
Great Appetizers will be Served Cash Bar.......Event is Free of Charge......Plenty of Free Parking......
An Informal Get Together for all Members of all 7450 District Club......Meet members from across the district , share stories and have fellowship and fun and learn about NEW Rotary Club Formation.........This event is sponsored by the District 7450 Membership Committee and is part of an ongoing series of events to grow and strengthen Existing District Clubs and to Facilitate Formation of New Passport and Satellite Clubs.
To Host Future District Membership Events or to assist the District Membership Committee please contact Karen Mazzarella or Gary Pawliczek ....RSVP is helpful, but not necessary.......Karen Mazzarella [email protected] 610-613-3841 OR Gary Pawliczek [email protected] 610-563-5853 Tell a Friend...Bring a Friend!!!!
Calling all history buffs! Historian Roger Arthur, will be back at the Rachel Kohl Community Library presenting a series surrounding President Abraham Lincoln. The first lecture will be the Assassination of Lincoln on April 9th @ 6:30 pm, the week of the anniversary of his death.
This will be followed by Laughing Lincoln on 4/30 @ 6:30 and Lincoln's Legacy on 5/14 @ 6:30pm. Register at the library or by calling 610-358-3445 ext. 2.
Susan Sternberg, Director
Rachel Kohl Community Library
687 Smithbridge Road
Glen Mills, PA 19342-1225
Phone 610-358-3445
Fax 610-558-0693
Parents and their toddlers in strollers are invited to join us for fun and informative walks through the garden and galleries. Spend time with your child and make friends with new families while you learn a little about the amazing collections that make Winterthur special. Members and children under 2 free; nonmembers: $5 per child and $5 per adult with paying child; additional adults $15.
Wednesdays, April–October
11:00 am, Brown Horticulture Learning Center
Go behind-the-scenes with the experts! Each week Winterthur introduces you to a specialist who will share with you his/her insights and expertise about the Winterthur Garden and estate, its history, horticulture, or the environment. Presentations may be in the form of a walk, talk, or demonstration (or a combination). About 1 hour. Members free. Included with admission.
| April 4 | The Inspiration Behind Winterthur’s New Garden Follies (talk) Interested in learning more about the inspiration behind the new Folliesexhibition? Join Carol Long, curator of the garden, as she explains the details that went into creating Winterthur’s first outdoor exhibition. |
| April 11 |
Spring Ephemerals of Azalea Woods (walk) Enjoy an early spring day in Azalea Woods. Susan Sibley, garden horticulturist, will be your guide as you witness the garden come to life with bluebells, trillium, and windflowers. |
| April 18 |
Getting to Know the Sundial Garden (walk) Originally called the April Garden, the formally designed Sundial Garden provides the framework for a carefully planned succession of blooms through the month of April. Take a walk with Garden Horticulturist Joe Lazorchak to experience and get to know the history behind this spring-blooming garden created by H. F. du Pont and Marian Cruger Coffin. |
| April 25 |
Attracting Hummingbirds with Gardens, Flowers, and Feeders (talk) Want to attract more of those brilliant-colored, ever-nimble hummingbirds to your garden? Come learn all about hummingbird gardening with Ron Simpson, Winterthur garden guide and New Castle County master gardener. |
| May 2 |
Winterthur’s Flowering Trees (walk) This walk, led by Director of Garden & Estate Chris Strand, will feature our beautiful and familiar dogwoods and redbuds but also highlight exceptional specimen trees at Winterthur, such as magnolias, dove trees, crabapples, and cherries. H. F. du Pont designed his spring garden as a celebration of color, and these flowering trees play a pivotal role in his composition. |
| May 9 | Amazing Azaleas (walk) Acres of colorful azaleas and rhododendrons brighten the early May garden. Join Linda Eirhart, director of horticulture and senior curator of plants, for a stroll through Azalea Woods to learn why Mr. du Pont “was fired with a desire to plant azaleas in all directions.” |
| May 16 |
A Passion for Peonies (walk) Take a walk through the Peony Garden with Garden Horticulturist Michelle Stapleford. The large collection of A. P. Saunders hybrids flaunts colors as diverse as yellow, red, white, lavender, and fabulous pink. Take in the spectacle and learn all about the care and maintenance of herbaceous and tree peonies. |
| May 23 | How to Make a Pollinator House (demo) Encourage beneficial insects in your garden by creating a pollinator house! Join Suzanne French, garden horticulturist, for a demonstration on how to make one of these structures using Winterthur’s own pollinator house as inspiration. |
| May 30 | The Joy of Sketching Outdoors (demo/walk) Discover your inner artist while taking in the beauty of the Winterthur Garden and estate. With the firm belief that anyone can draw, Erica Anderson, assistant curator of education/garden programs, will show you how easy it is to make a nature sketchbook for capturing your special moments in the great outdoors. Basic drawing supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring along your own. |
Want to help the environment? Grab some plates and start feasting on invasive plants! There are many tasty recipes utilizing nonnative plants as their star ingredients. Join plant foragers Kevin and Diana as they discuss how garlic mustard, Japanese knotweed, stinging nettle, and other exotic species can be harvested, cooked, and eaten. Eat your way out of a bad situation and become an “invasivore” today! (Samples will be served.)
Join us Wednesday May 2, 6:30–8:30 p.m. for this educational lecture presented by the Brandywine Conservancy.
A beautifully diverse array of flowering native plants both support and depend on an equally rich variety of bees, butterflies, moths and flies. These mutually dependent relationships are the foundation for the landscapes we treasure and the food we eat.
This interactive program is a must for anyone who loves pollinators…or plants.
Homeowner? Farmer? Business owner? Active community member? No matter your interest, you’ll learn specific project ideas for planting native flowers, shrubs and trees that will beautify your property and support pollinators.
Speakers:
Faith Kuehn, Ph.D., Environmental Program Administrator, Delaware Dept. of Agriculture
Thalia Pappas, Ph.D., Consultant, Delaware Dept. of Agriculture
Drs. Kuehn and Pappas have built distinguished careers on their passion for pollinators. They now apply their passion by sharing their expertise, helping people create critical pollinator habitat.
Offered in partnership with Longwood Gardens' Community Read, celebrating women in horticulture and the book Lab Girl by Hope Jahren.
Location: Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art Lecture Room (Riverside entrance), 1 Hoffman’s Mill Road, Chadds Ford, PA 19317
Light refreshments will be served at 6:30 p.m.; program will begin by 6:45.
Tickets: Free for Conservancy easement owners and members; $5 non-members
Questions? Call 610.388.8386
Have breakfast and get a township update from the supervisors.
Catered by Hank's.
Optional tour of Painter's Folly after meeting.
Many non-native plants once considered tame garden dwellers have escaped cultivation and become invasive. These plants often out-compete native species for necessary resources and do not provide a diverse ecosystem for insects, birds, and microorganisms. Learn trees, shrubs, perennials, and groundcovers that can substitute for invasive plants, meet your landscaping needs, and put your garden to work for wildlife.
As the plant world awakens from its winter slumber, the green growth and flowers of early blooming plants is an exciting time in the garden. Join us for a guided walk through our campus and experience the burst of new life in the spring. We will see spring ephemerals, perennials and trees blooming, plus learn how these native plants function in a healthy ecosystem.
The walk will last approximately 45–60 minutes. Registration is required.
While prairies, grasslands, and meadows are critical habitats for pollinators, there are many other opportunities to support our insect allies and increase plant diversity in our gardens. In the Northeast, where creating wildflower meadows can be challenging, the value of woody plants in pollinator conservation is often overlooked. Kelly Gill of the Xerces Society presents a suite of high-value trees and shrubs that provide habitat for native bees, butterflies, and other flower visitors. A tour of Mt. Cuba Center’s gardens to see these plant-insect interactions first hand completes the day.
Rain date for this class is Friday, May 18, 2018.
Tyler Arboretum Annual Plant Sale
Saturday and Sunday, May 5 and 6, general public, 9am – 3pm both days.
H2O, yes or no? Site savvy plants are the perfect solution for the wet or dry corners of your garden. Offering luscious plants to suit diverse site conditions and gardening abilities, our Annual Plant Sale provides inspiration for the whole garden.
Plants for sale will include: showy annuals for containers, herbs, edibles, flowering shrubs, trees, unusual vines, and rare and difficult to find plants. Our featured plant collection this year is viburnums, a diverse family of gorgeous plants that offer multi-season interest, support wildlife, have fragrant flowers and so much more (see back cover).
Garden Design Consultations: Once again this year, we will have design consultants available to help you refresh your vision for the garden, with recommendations for plants that work for every spot in your landscape. Half-hour sessions only. Contact Julia Lo Ehrhardt at [email protected] or 610-566-9134, ext. 305 to reserve your spot.
Plant Experts available all day both days. Garden Design consultations available on Saturday from 10am – 2pm.
ADMISSION FREE
Tyler Arboretum, 515 Painter Rd, Media, PA, 19063
610-566-9134
www.tylerarboretum.org/plantsale
Mary Vaux Walcott was a gifted artist whose nearly 1,000 watercolors of North American wildflowers earned her the title of the "Audubon of Botany". Married late in life, she accompanied her husband on trips to the American and Canadian Rockies during which time she painted the native flora of the region. In 1925, the Smithsonian Institution published 400 of her illustrations in a five-volume work entitled North American Wild Flowers.
Marjorie G. Jones presents a fascinating look at Mary Walcott, a remarkable illustrator and an intrepid woman who sought escape from Victorian social conventions and pursued adventure and self-expression in the American west during the transformative times in which she lived. The talk will be supplemented with selected prints of Walcott's original paintings from Mrs. Copeland's collections. Light refreshments will be served.
Copies of Marjorie's book, The Life and Times of Mary Vaux Walcott, will be available for purchase and signing after the lecture.
A newly acquired cabinet at Winterthur and related objects in the collection emerge as tools in the lucrative business of transatlantic trade in the 18th and 19th centuries. Curated by graduate students at Winterthur, this exhibit will be on view in the Society of Winterthur Fellows Gallery. Members free. Included with admission.
Escape Brandywine is a new, historically immersive escape room experience available every Saturday this spring and summer!
PURCHASE TICKETS
Tickets are $28 per person
Tickets must be purchased in advance online, as space is limited.
Escape Brandywine is an escape room experience, set inside the historic Chads House, c.1725, located along site of the Battle of Brandywine. This escape room program is unlike any other, since it places you directly inside an authentic historical space with a Revolutionary War mission!
Escape Brandywine places participants into roles of spies on the eve of the Battle of Brandywine, and charges them with finding General Howe's battle plans that have been hidden inside the Chads House for safe keeping. Using real Revolutionary War spy techniques, codes and cyphers, players will have 60 minutes to solve puzzles that will allow them to locate the plans and escape the house to deliver the plans to George Washington!
To purchase your tickets, click here. Private escape room experiences are available for corporate outings, team building, private parties and special events! Please email [email protected] or call 610-388-7376 to check availability.
For more information about Chadds Ford Historical Society, please visit our website at http://www.chaddsfordhistory.org.
Pony Rides, Moon Bounce, Train Ride, Live Entertainment, Games & Crafts, Food Truck
Fairville Friends School
Fairville Friends School / 216 Pond View / Chadds Ford, PA 19317 / 610.388.1268 phone / 610.388.2679 fax / [email protected]
"View" Exhibit at The Art Trust Gallery
Artists' Reception and Gallery Walk in West Chester!
Friday, May 4 | 5:00 - 9:00 pm
The Art Trust
16 West Market Street
West Chester, PA 19382
484-467-1664
Hours: Weekdays 9am - 4:30 pm
Through guided meditation, woodland walks, and seated contemplation, cultivate a more profound awareness of the natural world by immersing yourself in Mt. Cuba Center’s tranquil gardens and landscapes.
Rain date for the retreat is Sunday, May 20, 2018.